Essays on Accounting Theory in Honour of Joel S. Demski is a collection
of previously unpublished essays on accounting theory. The contributors
are students, collaborators, colleagues and friends of Professor Joel S.
Demski. Most of the contributors share Professor Demski's view of
accounting as the production and consumption of a very special and
powerful economic good called information. Like Professor Demski, they
also prefer an economic analytic approach to accounting theory. However,
some contributors have chosen other perspectives on the field of
accounting.
The book also contains an extensive review of Professor Demski's own
contributions, to the theory of accounting over the past four decades,
written by Jerry Feltham, professor emeritus at the University of
British Columbia. The integration of Accounting and the Economics of
information worked out by Joel Demski and those he inspired has
revolutionized accounting thought.